Events include beer tastings, beer dinners, meet-the-brewer nights and more, at bars, restaurants and stores across Central New York.

For instance: You can meet Brooklyn Brewery brewmaster Garrett Oliver, sample the Brooklyn Blast Double IPA and get his newest book signed from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday at Armory Square’s Blue Tusk or at 7 p.m. at the Dinosaur Bar-B-Que.

Or you can sample Brewery Ommegang’s Belgian-style beers at the Byrne Dairy Galeville store at 5 p.m. Monday. Or check out the Harpoon Brewery Chowda Cruise Tuesday and Wednesday at various locations in Liverpool.

Kitty Hoynes Irish Pub hosts an East Coast vs. West Coast IPA tasting on Thursday, while The Blue Tusk presents its annual Duvel Day on Friday.

Also: At 6 p.m. Tuesday, I’ll be hosting a talk at the Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse on the state of craft brewing in New York, with free samplings from five New York breweries. (Ignore the posters that mistakenly say that event is Monday.)

This year’s Syracuse Beer Week has about 30 fewer events than last year’s, but that’s because organizers want to emphasize “quality, not quantity,” said Kevin Pilipczak, who is coordinating the event for T.J. Sheehan.

The point of beer week, he said, “is to show that brewers more than ever are challenging the boundaries of brewing, getting different tastes and flavors out there, and more styles than we’ve ever seen.”

Food & Drink Editor Don Cazentre can be reached at 470-2297 or by email at dcazentre@syracuse.com. Look for food- and drink-related stories, photos and videos at syracuse.com/food.